how does .999999… repeating equal 1?

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I know there are proofs on this but I’m not great at math, can someone dumb it down for me?

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Let .99999… be called X

What is 10X? It must be 9.99999…

What is 10X – X? It must be 9.0.

10X – X also equals 9X.

So if 9X = 9.0, then X = 1.0 as well.

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